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  • March 2015
  • Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

development costs on a per-unit basis. We also focus on providing information, not entertainment. Although she's written and talked about as a celebrity, Martha is really a teacher. We put our how-to content out there, and we let people... View Details
  • July 2016 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers (A)

By: Juan Alcacer, Raffaella Sadun, Olivia Hull and Kerry Herman
In October 2015, Google restructured into Alphabet, a holding company, which analysts said would facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Conglomerates; Corporate Restructuring; Google; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Research and Development; Diversification; Financial Reporting; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry; Computer Industry; California; United States
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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

unconventional energy. The research is being developed in close collaboration with leaders from business, labor, policy, the sciences, and academia in order to pinpoint concrete actions and recommendations for improving U.S.... View Details
  • Web

Joiner - Entrepreneurship

of HBS to global startup regions. FALL Is becoming a joiner right for me: Attend Rock/CPD career panel What does a startup job search look like? Meet with a Career and Professional Development (CPD) entrepreneurship coach (login required)... View Details
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

to help repay $19.5 billion in IMF-backed debt, part of a much larger rescue package backed by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and a group of countries. Kim worked alongside representatives from Goldman Sachs to manage the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • Web

Climate Impact - Business & Environment

captured atmospheric carbon during manufacturing, to produce concrete products with 70-100+% less embodied carbon.” Wyatt Smith MBA 2015 | Founder & CEO, Upsmith “UpSmith is on a mission to combat skilled worker shortages. We View Details
  • Research Summary

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • January 18, 2024
  • Article

America's Top Talent Incubators Are Organizations Where People Want to Stay

By: Sarah Abbott and Boris Groysberg
Organizations like GE, IBM, and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have long been touted as the classic "academy companies." Academy companies produce first-rate executives who populate their own senior ranks and also go on to lead other companies. We wondered if academy companies... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture
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  • 25 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "Without it we cannot grow, change, and—eventually—live more fully in a larger world," Butler writes in his new book, Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Judging Success - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

objectives, including knowledge transfer, skills development, and the cultivation of self-awareness, judgment, and the capacity to lead. In the short run, the success of an individual case session can be assessed with respect to the... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

currently in the process of writing a case together with one of the panelists, which could potentially serve as part of the future MBA curriculum. Third, through developing new skills in a low-risk... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

The company Blocpower works with EJ principles as well, centering “the clean energy future in low-income communities and communities of color to create jobs and develop skilled workers.”[84] They install... View Details
  • May 2020 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Allison J. Wigen and Emily Tedards
Michael Ku joined Pfizer in 2011, after the company had undergone three large-scale mergers and acquisitions. His mission was to drive the digital transformation of the company’s clinical supply chain, but he knew he had to start with the culture. Over the next eight... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Digital; Change; Culture; Management; Talent; Pharmaceutical Companies; Customer-centricity; Collaboration; Cross-functional Management; Purpose; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply Chain; Decision Making; Mission and Purpose
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Press / Media

By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Bridging Business and Engineering

Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical background and hone his entrepreneurial and management skills in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

David Moss is Rewriting History

be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial history through a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 16 Aug 2018
  • News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” There are three things that define high-impact to Endeavor. First is having the commercial skills to create something that’s large and successful, creating a lot of jobs and revenue. Second is... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman